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Romantics

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"Piper play that song again"
Blake: Songs of Innocence Introduction
Heroic Couplet
pair of rhyming lines in iambic pentameter.
Enjambment
run-on line; a line of verse having no end punctuation but continuing grammatical meaning past the end of the line.
Sensibility
Sentiment; literature that values emotion over the logic of Enlightenment, and believes it to be a truer moral guide than abstract principals --> views humans as naturally benevolent
Zeugma
yoking or bonding; artfully using a verb or adjective to connect two otherwise unrelated objects
Epic Simile
Sustained simile (using 'like' to compare two different objects) that is used in the epic or mock heroic, and lasts much longer than a sentence (up to 100 lines).
Anaphora
A rhetorical scheme that involves repeating an initial word or phrase at the beginning of several lines of verse (opposed to epistrophe which repeats words at end).
Epistolary Novel
Narrative form in which a story is told through letters written by one or more characters in a novel. Effectively removes an sort of a formal narrator or sustained narrative voice.
Blank Verse
Non-rhymed iambic pentameter
Stichic
Opposed to Strophic; describes verse composed of a continuous and unbroken set of lines of the same length and meter (isometric).
Strophic
opposed to stichic; describes lines composed in stanzas like ballads.
Frame Narrative
story that encompasses, bookends, or frames another story that may or may not include other stories, such as a narrator telling another story about another person. Eliminates any cohesive narrative voice.
Anachronism
placing an object, person or part of speech out of its historical period and context.
Ballad
Verse written in quatrains of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter. The second and fourth lines MUST rhyme. Includes "folksy" language and tragic themes and refrain.
Elegy
verse of lamentation over loss or death of something/someone.
Gothic
Germanic, Medieval, uncivilized; describes a literary style popular in the late 18th century and early 19th century that centered on themes of the perverse, grotesque, mysterious, and desolate.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano
Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope
Fantomina
Eliza Haywood
Joseph Andrews
Henry Fielding
My Cat Jeoffry
from Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, ON REVISITING THE BANKS OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR. JULY 13, 1798
William Wordsworth
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
William Wordsworth
Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known
William Wordsworth
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
William Wordsworth
I Travelled Among Unknown Men
William Wordsworth
Resolution and Independence
William Wordsworth
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
My Heart Leaps Up
William Wordsworth
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
William Wordsworth
The Solitary Reaper
William Wordsworth
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
William Wordsworth
London 1802
William Wordsworth
The World is Too Much With Us
William Wordsworth
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Blake
The Lamb "Little Lamb, Who made thee?"
The Lamb from Innocence by Blake
The Little Black Boy
Innocence by Blake
The Chimney Sweeper
"Tom Dakre" Innocence by Blake
The Devine Image
"Love Purity Peace" Innocence by Blake
"Hear the voice of the Bard"
Introduction from Experience by Blake
The Chimney Sweep
Experience by Blake
The Sick Rose
Experience by Blake
The Tyger
Experience by Blake
London
Experience by Blake
Ode to Psyche
John Keats
Ode to Melancholy
John Keats
Ode to a Nightengale
John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
To Autumn
John Keats
Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray

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